Teaching

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Orienting interns to being second-year residents.

BACKGROUND: Although orientation to the first year of residency is universal in family practice residencies, there is no published information on preparing first-year residents to become upper-level residents, an almost equally dramatic change. METHODS: ...
Joel H Merenstein, Paula Preisach (Fam Med, 200202)
orienting-interns-second-year-residents.asp

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Identifying oneself as a teacher: the perceptions of preceptors.

INTRODUCTION: Attracting and retaining qualified medical educators will be a continuing challenge as physicians feel more pressure to produce clinical revenue. With this paper we hope to begin to identify how clinical teachers, judged as excellent by ...
Sarah Stone, Beth Ellers, Deborah Holmes, Rosemary Orgren, Donna Qualters, Janet Thompson (Med Educ, 200202)
identifying-oneself-teacher-perceptions-preceptors.asp

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How do medical schools use measurement systems to track faculty activity and productivity in teaching?

The authors describe their findings from a study that (1) identified 41 medical schools or medical school departments that used metric systems to quantify faculty activity and productivity in teaching and (2) analyzed the purposes and progress of those ...
William T Mallon, Robert F Jones (Acad Med, 200202)
medical-schools-measurement-systems-track-faculty-activity.asp

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Will neurology residents with large student loan debts become academicians?

Medical education in the United States is expensive, with 4-year tuition at some institutions totaling more than 150,000 US dollars. Most US graduates have student debt burdens. Using an internet survey, we tested the hypothesis that high student debt ...
Michael J Doherty, A T Schneider, D L Tirschwell (Neurology, 200202)
will-neurology-residents-large-student-loan-debts-become-academicians.asp

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Psychiatric disorders of children and adolescents--a growing problem at school.

The purpose is to present the views of comprehensive school and senior secondary school teachers working in the Oulu province in Northern Finland concerning the behavioural and emotional disorders of their pupils, the actions taken by teachers to refer ...
Maija-Leena Pönkkö, Hanna Ebeling, Anja Taanila, Sirkka-Liisa Linna, Irma Moilanen (Int J Circumpolar Health, 200202)
psychiatric-disorders-children-adolescents-growing-problem-school.asp

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Graphing calculators and students conceptions of the derivative.

This study compared the effect of using graphing calculators on college students conceptual understanding of the derivative with the traditional teaching approach in Calculus I course. Students (49 men and 52 women) in four classes at a large public ...
Haitham M Alkhateeb, Justin Wampler (Percept Mot Skills, 200202)
graphing-calculators-students-conceptions-derivative.asp

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Use of an ecologically based program for teaching motor skills in a naturalistic setting to individuals with disabilities.

The purpose of this action study was to apply an ecological program for teaching motor skills to individuals with disabilities in naturalistic settings. The program was developed based on an ecological survey. Participants were 22 individuals with ...
Jiabei Zhang, Debra Berkey (Percept Mot Skills, 200202)
ecologically-based-program-teaching-motor-skills-naturalistic-setting.asp

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Effects of self-assessment on retention in rule-based learning.

The main purpose of most educational and training programs isthat the person will acquire some specified knowledge, retain it until a later time when it will be retrieved and employed to make decisions, select and execute actions, etc. Previous research ...
Peter Hassmén, Darwin P Hunt, Charlotta Dybeck (Percept Mot Skills, 200202)
effects-self-assessment-retention-rule-based-learning.asp

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A step-wise role playing approach for teaching patient counseling skills to medical students.

We describe a step-wise role playing approach to bedside teaching during the clinical training of medical students. The objective of this approach is to teach them the skills which are required to practice patient-centered medicine. "Patient-centered ...
Jochanan Benbassat, Reuben Baumal (Patient Educ Couns, 200202)
step-wise-role-playing-approach-teaching-patient-counseling-skills.asp

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Integration of theory and practice in learning mental health nursing.

This article describes an action research project that aimed at a better integration of theory and practice in the education of mental health nursing students. Two partners, an institute of nursing and health care and a university hospital, collaborated ...
T Munnukka, T Pukuri, P Linnainmaa, N Kilkku (J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs, 200202)
integration-theory-practice-learning-mental-health-nursing.asp